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PageBT Sports- Decatur, Illinois, Friday, October 29, 1M2 relaxes as a landslide All-Star choice McRae American and National leagues. The Milwaukee Brewers, American League champions, led all teams with three All-Stars. In addition. to Yount, they were first baseman Cecil Cooper and right-handed pitcher Pete Vuckovich. The Phillies had two Carlton and third baseman Mike Schmidt Rounding out the team were second baseman Dama-so Garcia, Toronto Blue Jays; outfielders Pedro Guerrero, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Dave Winfield, New Jj NEW YORK (AP) It's over now, the pressure is ji)ff and, finally, Hal McRae of the Kansas City Royals, 'Can sit back and relax.

McRae, who led the major leagues with 133 runs in during the 1982 season, was one of four players who received 30 or more votes from a possible 40 in balloting by sports writers and broadcasters for this year's Associated Press All-Star team. McRae said he was honored that his accomplish--ment, at the age of 36, had been recognized, but it was 'laot a season he would remember as being much fun. "I remember when I got to 97 or (runs batted in), we were in Detroit, and my legs were shaking at the plate with runners in scoring position," McRae said. "I hit the ball to the shortstop, and I was real upset. "I went into the runway and tore everything apart.

That gave me some relief, but it was all the same when we went to New York the next McRae said. was a lot of pressure and I was driving myself every day. I never really did enjoy what I accomplished until it was all i-; McRae, a free agent, received 36 votes for the posi-, tion of designated hitter. Other landslide winners were outfielder Dale Murphy of the Atlanta Braves, with 34 votes, and shortstop Robin Yount of the Milwaukee Brewers and left-handed pitcher Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies, each with 38. The 12 positions were evenly divided between the er in the Ail-Star team's closest contest.

Cooper batted! .313 with 32 homers, while committing only five Vuckovich, 18-6, also received 17 votes, beating Steve! Rogers of Montreal by six votes. 'A Despite missing 14 games early in the season with a rib cage injury, Schmidt hit .280 with 35 homers and 87 runs batted in to win the third base spot. Garcia, who hit .310 and stole 54 bases' for the Blue Jays, got 12 votes for second base to six for Manny Tril-J lo of Philadelphia. Carter, with 29 homers and 97 runs! batted in, easily won the catcher spot over Lance Par-rish of Detroit, 27-9. Sutter's 36 saves and 2.90 earned run average earned! him 20 votes for relief pitcher.

Dan Quisenberry of Kan-i sas City was second with eight votes. Triple-A World Series OK'd York Yankees; catcher Gary Carter, Montreal Expos, and relief pitcher Bruce Sutter, St. Louis McRae, who finished the season with a .308 batting average and was fifth in the American League with 189 hits, said his Tony Pace, had talked twice with -Royals management "They're kind of slow," he said of the Royals front office. Murphy was McRae's National League counterpart, tying Montreal's Al Oliver for the league lead in runs batted in with 109. He batted .281 and had 36 homers, one less than league leader Dave Kingman of the New York Mets.

"It's a great honor anytime you get into an All-Star team like that," Murphy said. "There's a lot of competition out and you know it's a tough Each of the outfield positions was filled by players with 30 or more homers and 100-plus runs batted in. Guerrero hit 32 homers for the Dodgers with 100 runs batted In, and Winfield had 37 homers and 106 runs batted in. Guerrero had 20 votes, Winfield 15. Willie Wilson of Kansas City was the fourth highest vote-getter among outfielders with 13 votes.

Yount hit .331 with 29 homers and 114 runs batted in. Carlton, who won an unprecedented fourth National League Cy Young Award, was the only 20-game winner in the major leagues with a 23-11 record. Cooper receiyed 17 votes for first base to 14 for Oliv LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Baseball's three minor leagues gave their enthusiastic endorse- ment Thursday to a Triple-A World Series in 1983. The round-robin tournament will be played in Louisville Sept.

15-18. "This is one of the best ideas to come along since I've been in baseball," said Harold Cooper, president of the International League. "This series should be around for a long, long time." Cooper was a major backer of the proposal, advocated by A. Ray Smith, president of the Louisville Redbirds. They met in Louisville to work out the details with Joe Ryan, American Association president, and Larry Schmittou, president of the Salt Lake City Gulls, who was representing the Pacific Coast League.

Smith told a news conference that the series would pit the champions of the three leagues against each other in doubleheaders, with the title going to the team with the best won-lost record. He said the leagues selecte'd Louisville for the Series "because of the enviable year we've had at the boxoffice." The Redbirds set an all-time, minor league attendance record of 868,418 last season, their first; For the right to stage the Series, Smith guaranteed $50,000 of the estimated $125,000 expenses. Each of the three leagues will put up $25,000 to guarantee the rest. Smith said there was no diffi-, culty in working out a format-which calls for each of the. winning players to get a championship ring and $1,000 apiece.

Members of the runner-up team would receive $750 each and $500 would be paid to each of the third-place finishers. 1981 Mustang Jig-a-low chassis, aluminum wheels, Hoosier tires, disc brakes! Less Motor and Transmission! i Call (217) 794-3391 after 5 p.m. ft Judge Reese to prison he is to report to her courtroom. "You're not the only one struggling with this thing," Gable told Chief Assistant State Attorney George Yoss, who "reluctantly" asked her to put Reese behind bars. "I don't know whether this is right or wrong," the judge continued, admitting that she had intended to give Reese a longer term.

"But I have to do what I think is right." Yoss, who said Reese could be paroled after serving three months, told the judge he was impressed that Reese had pleaded guilty without making any deals, knowing he could go to prison for as long as 34 years and that the decision would be made by a judge with a tough MIAMI (AP) A Dade circuit judge Thursday ordered Don Reese to prison for six months or more, saying the for-' mer Miami Dolphins football player had to be held accountable for violating his i drug probation by using ty Judge Ellen Morphonios Gable gave who revealed his drug habit on the cover.of Sports Illustrated magazine tast June, an indeterminate sentence of months to five years. Under the, Rarely used law, the state Department of Corrections will determine how much 3ime the former Miami Dolphins defensive lineman serves. Gable also ordered Reese to be enrol-'ied in a prison drug program. She allow- ed him to remain free until Jan. 11, when gDTjTJ8 G3uEK3a C3uD8 jj Eason has huge lead in total offense race Big Ten statistics of Purdue have three each.

John Kidd of Northwestern is the punting leader with a 45.6 average followed by Reggie Roby of Iowa at 45.1 and Ralf Mojsiejenko of Michigan State at 44.6 and Chris Sigourney of Illinois at 43.6. All-American Anthony Carter of Michigan leads in punt returns with a 14.2 average. Garcia Lane of Ohio State is second at 11.2 followed by Kirby Wilson of Illinois at 10.4. Kerry Glenn of Minnesota leads in kickoff returns with a 25.2 average and Lloyd Hawthorne of Purdue is second at 24.0. Illinois dominates the team offensive statistics.

Illinois is first in passing offense averaging 319.3 yards a game to 270.2 for runnerup Indiana and 260.8 for third place Northwestern. Illinois is first in total offense with an average of 440.5 yards a game. Indiana is second at 425.6 followed by Michigan at 424.6 and Ohio State at 390.0. Illinois is averaging 33.7 points a game to 30.6 for Michigan, 26.6 for Purdue and 26.5 for Ohio State. Michigan is the rushing leader averaging 275.4 yards a game.

Ohio State is sec CHICAGO (AP) Quarterbacks Tony Eason of Illinois and Steve Smith of Michigan and tailback Mel Gray of Purdue are the individual leaders in Big Ten football statistical race. Eason leads in total offense, based on-conference games only, by averaging 321.2 yards a game and is a close second to Smith in passing efficiency. Smith has a passing efficiency rating mark of 145.1 to 143.7 for Eason. Chuck Long of Iowa is third at 139.5 followed by Mike Tomczak of Ohio State at 138.4, Babe Laufenberg of Indiana at 136.0 and Scott Campbell of Purdue at 121.7. Eason has a gigantic lead over Laufenberg in total offense.

Laufenberg is "second, averaging 251.6 yards per game, and Mike Hohensee of Minnesota is third at 246.2 followed by Sandy Schwab of -Northwestern at 225.8. Gray is the rushing leader with an average of 113.6 yards a game. Lawrence Ricks of Michigan is second at 107.4 fol- lowed by Tim Spencer of Ohio State at 104.7 and Eddie Phillips of Iowa at 104.0. Nobody else in the league is averaging more than 70 yards a game. Todd Jenkins of Northwestern leads in a close race among pass receivers.

Jenkins has caught 35 passes fo 462 yards while Mike Martin of Illinois and Jon Harvey of Northwestern have caught 33 each. Martin is averaging 17.5 yards per catch and Harvey 12.1. Mike Bass of Illinois is the scoring leader with 60 points oh 13 field goals and 21 extra points. Orlando Brown of Indiana is second with 36 points on six touchdowns and Duane Gunn of Indiana is third with 32 points on five touchdowns and two extra points. Bass is the kick scoring leader with his 60 points and Ali Haji-Schiekh of Michigan is second with 31 points.

Keith Bostic of Michigan is the leader in intercepted passes with four while Mark Suter of Indiana and Don Anderson ond at 227.7 followed by Iowa at 206.7. Michigan is tops in rushing defense and scoring defense. It has allowed 62.8 yards a game rushing to 77.2 for Iowa and 119.0 for Ohio State. Michigan is allowing 11.4 points a game to 15.5 for Ohio State and 18.0 for Iowa. Minnesota is the leader in pass defense and total defense, yielding 157.0 passing yards a game to 163.7 for Northwestern and 187.4 for Indiana.

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10 AM-4 PMffl SUN. 10 AIVN4 PM I downtown GOODYEAR TIRE CENTER UJiMJJJjYU 411 E. William Ph. 429-4459 Hours: Mon-Fri Sat Decatur's Keel Robinson went a long way, but not far enough as No. 1 seeded Paul Pridemore of Aurora defeated Robinson 6-2; 6-1 in the finals of the Victory Club tournament (for boys age 12 and under) held in Rockford.

Robinson, who was not seeded in the tournament, advanced to. the quarterfinals, by defeating Mark Booras of Floss-moor 6-0, 6-2. In the quarterfinals, he defeated 3 seeded Paul Delatore of. Na-perville 64, 6-2. Then, by upsetting No.

2 Steve Ritzwoller of St. Charles 6-6-1 in the semifinals, he advanced to finals where he lost to Pridemore. "Decatur's and Ryan Maulding each got as' far as quarterfinals ))efpre losing. Ritzwoller beat Miller 3-6, "6-3, 6-2 in the only three-set battle. -Rock-ford's Scott Kneler beat Maulding 6-3, 6-In, first-round play, Miller defeated rRich Giige of North Aurora 6-2, 6-4.

JTMaulding won by default, and Todd of Brookfield, beat Adrian iDevore of Decatur 6-1, 64. In tennis action at the Decatur Racquet Club, as part of the Junior Circuit Segment No. 1, No. 1-seed Christi Hill of Decatur beat No. 2-seed Susie Green of Jacksonville 6-2, 6-3 in the girls age 12 and under division In the boy's age 18 and under division, unseeded Tomoo Tokunago of Champaign defeated No.

2-seed Jeff Huser of Decatur 6-2, 6-0. -McEnroe fined: At Tokyo, top-seeded John McEnroe was fined $500 for using "verbal abuse" en route to a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Phil Dent Thursday as he moved into the quarterfinals of the Seiko Super tennis tournament. Second-seeded Vitas Gerulaitis was a 6-1, 64 winner over Mike Leach.McEnroe will meet Steve Denton, who beat Tim Mayotte 6-2. 6-7. and Gerulaitis will take on Robert Van't Hof, who defeated France's Dominique Bedel 7-6, 6-7,.